Wind and solar energy are obviously essential in reducing carbon emissions, but they also have a remarkable side effect: saving lives, ARS Technica reports. As they edge out fossil fuels, renewables are reducing not just carbon emissions, but also other air pollutants. And the result is an...

Apple, LinkedIn, Spotify and Twitter joined the list of technology companies retaliating against the far-right and PresidentDonald Trump’s attempt to place blame on both white supremacists and counter-protestors at Saturday’s Charlottesville protest, The Guardian reported. After Facebook’s Mark...

Airline entrepreneur Hans Rudolf Woehrl is interested in insolvent Air Berlin, a spokeswoman for his company INTRO-Verwaltungs GmbH told Reuters, responding to a media report saying he was planning a bid. She said it was the only way to avoid creating a German monopoly. Lufthansa is the sole major...

(StatePoint) While getting vaccinated is important for people of all ages, it’s especially important for adults with heart disease. They are more likely to have serious complications from common diseases such as influenza (flu) or pneumonia that vaccination can help prevent. Common diseases can...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The University of Arizona has hired noted academic and social critic hero to the political left Noam Chomsky as a new faculty member in its linguistics department. Chomsky is joining the faculty this month and will start teaching part time in 2018. The 88-year-old, who has...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jose Reyes was placed on the 10-day disabled list Thursday by the New York Mets with a sore left ribcage. Fellow infielder Wilmer Flores remained out of the lineup against the Yankees with a similar injury. Flores planned to work out before the game, and the team decided not to put...

Out of the seven dead rhinos, six drowned while the other died of natural causes. DH FilePhoto The second wave of floods in Assam has inundated 80 per cent of the 481 sq km area of the famed Kaziranga National Park and...

El Salvador lawmakers unanimously voted to remove a controversial, 23-year-old law that allowed men to marry underage girls that they impregnated, a practice that essentially gave protection to sexual assailants from...

The ACLU has a long history of supporting those that many would call deplorable for their speech, with one of the most notable cases being from a planned rally by neo-Nazis in Skokie, Illinois almost 40 years ago. The...

Spanish police announced that they killed five suspects in order to stop what they described as a second attempted attack on Friday morning in Cambrils after an earlier terrorist attack in Barcelona on Thursday,...

Arkansas gained a new supply of the controversial lethal injection drugs just months after the state executed four men over an eight-day period, as a spokesman said the governor was planning to set an execution date for...